If you mean no harm, it can't be racist.
If we have anti-discrimination laws, racism no longer occurs.
Right?

Wrong.

Jennifer Patrice Sims (Jenn Sims) has written a sharp and witty corrective to damaging misunderstandings of racism. Out today.

Today is UK publication day!

🫠If youve heard “I’m not racist, I have Black friends”

🫣If you had high hopes when Obama or Sunak were elected

😓If your local gov has anti-DEI bills

✊🏽If you want to know why cops are assaulting univ students & profs

This book is for you!

Don't miss Sophie-Grace Chappell's talk on her new book 'Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World' at Five Leaves Bookshop

Thursday, 23rd May, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.

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In 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦, Giorgio Agamben investigates the role of metaphysics in Western thought.

#philosophy #metaphysics

In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington gives us the intellectual ‘tools’ from a diversity of traditions to start thinking philosophically. He explores many topics that have preoccupied philosophers for centuries—selves, souls, identity, will, morality, and more.

The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we feel at home in a world composed of incompatible fragments of meaning?

This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays by Raymond Geuss. Out now.

Finally in 10 days! Polity

#Podcast
Oliver Webb Carter interviews Ali Ansari
About Britain and Iran
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Read Iran
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Polity

#iran #historymatters #middleeast

Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century.

Nigel Gibson's revolutionary new biography brings Fanon’s thought to bear on contemporary antiracism.

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but mitigating greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us is still possible.

Philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms and threats to future generations and other species.

🛠️ Engineers, philosophers, policymakers – your blueprint for ethical technology design is here! Steven Umbrello's “Technology Ethics” (@politybooks) is available for pre-order.
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In his new book, Giorgio Agamben examines the role that the concept of ‘first philosophy’, or metaphysics, has played in the history of philosophy.

#philosophy #metaphysics

Are you new to philosophy and looking for the perfect beginner-friendly introduction?

Stephen Hetherington's unique book combines key topics in undergraduate philosophy with the intellectual tools you need to be a good philosopher.

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“Ailton Krenak … thinks in poetic and provocative ways that aren’t easily pinned down.”
Jeremy Williams, The Earthbound Report, on Ancestral Future by Ailton Krenak

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'an insightful account of superstates' internal governance and a thoughtful exploration of their similarities in diversity, fragility, leadership structures, and ideology.'
- Foreign Affairs reviews 'Superstates', a new book by Alasdair Roberts foreignaffairs.com/reviews/all-po… via…

Lots of really great Latin American studies titles by Polity. I should be in there next year with my Lula book 😉

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